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While we've had dominant decks and cards like Collected Company, Siege Rhino, Pack Rat, and Rally the Ancestors, those formats didn't see huge drops in attendance, and for the most part, by the time the outcry got loud, the problem card was already close to rotation (if you look at Rally and Bant Company, their most dominant times were in the two or three months before they rotated from the format)
It's probably the best luck I've had since I started collecting again a few years back
A PSA 10 is currently worth over $750
Once you have your deck, shuffle it and put it to the side
Essentially, they don't need too many upgrades, so you can upgrade your mana base as you see fit based on what you have